Notebook Zoologica Danica

These magnificent plates are taken from the first two volumes (Mammals and Fish) of a work that included eight, published in Copenhagen from 1878 over a period of more than twenty years. The initiator was Jørgen Christian Schiødte (1815-1884), one of the most important Danish zoologists of the 19th century, pioneer of arthropod studies and director of the Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift (Journal of Natural History), relayed by his former student Hans Jacob Hansen (1855-1936), zoologist and carcinologist. Joining them for these first two opuses were Peter Tauber (1832-1892), zoologist specializing in mammals and Adolf Severin Jensen (1866-1953), specialist in mollusks.